Word: fifteenth
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...years the Fifteenth Amendment's great promise of the vote for all on an equal basis was betrayed by a misplaced trust in the effectiveness of court action. Under a 1957 law, revised in 1960 and again in 1964, of 71 voter-discrimination suits filed, fewer than a dozen were handed with enough force to influence current election procedures. Justice Department lawyers spent an average 28 months working on each suit filed and rarely met with success. In one case six lawyers examined 36,000 pages of voter applications subpoened 185 witnesses and waited a full year before the case...
...name was called..Although the women's swim team is renowned for the amount of food it can consume, new records were set at Ivies...After her second-place performance in the 1650-yd. freestyle at Ivies, sophomore MAUREEN GILDEA's time of 17:10 has catapulted her to fifteenth-place in the nation in collegiate standings...
...freshman, subbing for the injured Wade Lau and playing his first game in six weeks, came alive with Olson's marker (his team-leading fifteenth). And as in Whiston's last--and only other--ECAC win, the 7-6 thriller at Colgate in early December, the icemen came back...
...swim for the local A.A.U. team, the Lobo Aquatic Club. Out of training for three and one-half years, Yntema began serious workouts again in late 1979. Then, with only about nine months of hard training behind him, he entered the A.A.U. Senior Nationals this past summer and finished fifteenth in his old specialty, the 200-yd. butterfly...